Clothes-pressing apparatus.



D. H. BENJAMlN & B. W. BROCKETT.

CLOTHES PRESSING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED 050.1.1915.

1,230,984. Patented June 26, 1917.

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CLOTHES PRESSING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. I. 1915.

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DANA. H. BENJAMIN, OF CLEVELAND HEIGHTS OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNORS TOTHE VILLAGE, AND BLUFORD W. BROCKETT, AMERICAN LAUNDRY MACHINERY COM-PANY, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

CLOTHES-PRESSING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 26, 1917.

Application filed December 1, 1915. Serial No. 64,499.

- To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, DANA H. BENJAMIN and BLUFORD W. BROCKE'I'I,citizens of the United States, residing at Cleveland Heights Village andCleveland, respectively, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-PressingApparatus, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in clothes pressing machines andparticularly to that class of such devices wherein the garments aresubjected to pressure between heated members, the one engaging the rightside of the fabric, being provided with a pressin surface which will notmat the nap of the abric and produce a gloss thereon.

More specifically the invention relates to an apparatus for pressinggarments having a nappy finish and it consists of cooperating pressingmembers, one of WhlCh 1s provided with suitable padding and the other ofwhich is provided with a pressing surface having innumerable hardenedprojections and intervening recesses which in the one instance extendinto the fabric and in the other receive the fibers and prevent thematting thereof and therefore avoid the production of a glossy finish onthe seams, the material utilized being preferably emery cloth or emerypaper or any similar surface having projections of a. crystallmecharacter with intervening interstices.

The invention may be further briefly summarized as consisting in theconstruction'and combination of parts hereinafter set forth in thefollowing description, drawings and claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation; Fig. 2 is asection through the several bucks Fig. 3 is a left end elevation; Fig. 4is a detail showing the. yielding means for the upper buck; Fig. 5 is asectional view of this device; Fig. 6 is a top plan view of the machine;Fig. 7 is a detail view of the equalizer for the upper buck; Fig. 8 is abottom plan view of one of the bucks; Fig. 9 is a cross. sectl n of theame;

- and and Fig. 10 is an enlarged sectional view of a piece of the buckcovering.

In carrying out the invention any preferred form and construction ofparts may be employed so long as it possesses the necessarycharacteristics, but we have shown one form in the drawings which iseffective, and in such embodiment 1 represents a base provided with astationary buck standard 1 having an upper platform portion 2 providedwith openings adapted to'receive bolts 3, one arranged near each cornerand all secured rigidly within a buck support 4. These bolts receivebetween the platform 2 and the base of the support 4 suitable springs 5.Below the, platform 2 these bolts are provided with nuts 6. The support4 is cut in from one end to form a recess 7 for receiving the portion ofthe garment which passes under this buck. Secured to the top of thissupport 4 is a lower ironing buck 8 preferably provided with a steamchamber 9 to be furnished with steam from any suitable source.

To the rearof the standard 1 is a main operating shaft standard 10 andan auxiliary standard 11. These two standards are provided .withbearings 12 and 13 respectively. These bearings support a rock shaft 14extending beyond both bearings, the portion extending beyond the bearing12 being tapered at 15 and reduced and threaded at 16 for a purpose tobe described. Mounted upon the rock shaft 14 are intermediate bucksupporting brackets 17 and 18, the former being rigidly secured to theshaft just inside of the bearing 12, and the latter being rigidlysecured to the shaft justoutside of the bearing 13. These two bracketsare integral with an intermediate buck 19 provided with a steam chamber20 to be supplied with steam from any suitable source, in any suitablemanner. Loosely mounted upon the rock shaft 14 is an upper bucksupporting bracket comprising side portions 21 spaced apart and eachhaving at its outer end a shaft receiving portion 22, these two bearingportions receiving a shaft 23 which passes through eyes 24 referablyformed integral with the upper uek 25. This upper buck has a steamchamber 26 therein. The shaft 23 is held within the shaft receivingportions 22 by means of suitable set screws 27 holding the shaft againstrotation. Secured to this shaft by set screw 28 between the inner eyes24 is an equalizing member 28 having laterally extending vided with ahead 34 engaging in a' recess 35 formed in a block 36 provided with aflange 37 secured by bolts 38 to the upper end of a standard 39.. Theshank of the bolt passes through an opening 40 in the block 36. Theblock 36 below the head of the bolt 34 is recessed at 41 to receive atongue 42 of a bar 43 which extends to the front of the machine and isthere provided with a hand piece 44. Above the block 36 the shank of thebolt is provided with a nut 45 engaging a spring 46. This spring thrustsagainst a washer 47- engaging the underside of the boss 31 while on theupper side of the boss the shank is provided with a nut 48 held in placeby a check nut 49.

In order to transmit pressure from the driving mechanism to the bucksthe tapered portion 15 of the shaft 14 is provided with a hub 50 havinga downwardly extending arm 51. This arm has at its lower end a fork 52provided with a cam 53 on the outside of the end of each fork. The hub50 is rovided with a laterally extending arm 54 aving a counterweight55secured thereto. A. suitable nut 56 holds the hub 50 in place, and thehub is fastened in any suitable manner to the tapered portion so thatthese parts operate the shaft.

Coiiperating with the cam 53 is suitable driving mechanism, and itcomprises a hearing bracket 57 provided with a-bearing portion 58 havinga cap 59. This bearing receives a shaft 60 to which. is keyed aperipheral cam 61 in extent a little greater than a semi-circle.

Assuming that the parts are in the position shown in Fig. 3, theoperator moves the intermediate member upward untilit is in engagementwith the upper buck, then places the garment upon the lower' buck. Hethen shifts the intermediate buck until it engages upon the top of thegarment and applies power through mechanism to be des'cm ed, causing thecam 61 to rotate in a counter- 1,2so,es4 I clockwise direction, as shownin Fig. 3, and moves the arm 51 and the intermediate buck in a clockwisedirection. Thiscauses pressure to be brought to bear between theintermediate buck and the lower buck. The power mechanism is thenreleased from the shaft 60.

Any suitable mechanism may be provided for rotating the shaft 60 firstin one direction then in the other, but since this mechanism constitutesno part of the invention it has not been shown or described, it beingonly important that when the buck 19 is moved downward the cam 61 shouldbe rotated in counter-clockwise direction as shown in Fig. 3, so that itwill engage one of the cams 53 and force the buck 19 downward, thereverse rotation causing the cam 61 to coeperate with the other cam 53.

The engaging surfaces of the several pressing members are equipped inthe following manner. The upper surface of the lower buck 8 and theupper surface of the intermediate buck 19 are both provided withsuitable padding 62 held in place by pins 63 and by bands 64 applied inthe usual manner. The lower face of the intermediate buck 19 and theupper buck 25 are each provided with a suitable pressing surfacepreferably produced by applying a sheet of yielding material 65 theretocomprising a support 66 having a plurality of projections 67 ofcrystalline character with intervening interstices or recesses 68, thematerial preferably utilized being either emery cloth or emery paper. Ineach instance the buck to which this covering is applied is suppliedwith a bead 69, overwhich the covering is formed and it is then heldabove the bead by a clamping band preferably made in halves 70 and 7-1which separate on both sides of the buck at some point intermediate theends. At the point of separation each half portion of the band isprovided with outwardly extending lugs 72 provided with suitableopenings for receiving clamping bolts 7 3 having wing nuts 74 thereon.These half bands firmly clamp the material in place over the pressingsurface of the buck.

In use the garments are placed upon the padded surface with the rightside away from the padding. The press is then closed when theprojections of the covering fabric will embed themselves in the fabricand prevent in the first instance the formation of a matted surface andthe consequent production of a gloss, and in the second place willengage some of the fibers and pull them out vided with a pressingsurface consisting of innumerable projections and recesses, said- Intestimony whereof we afiix our signa- 10 projections bemg of acrystalline character, tures' in presence of two witnesses as 01- andmeans for opening and closing said lows:

members.

2. A press for fabric comprising pressing members, one of said membersbeing pro-' DANA H. BENJAMIN. BLUFORD W. BROCKETT.

Witnesses:

G. O. FARQUHVARSON, D. Tozcon.

